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However, when you create a link with the first letter of the link uncapitalized, as in swimming pool, the first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized in the URL by the software, thus going to the article Swimming pool in this example. However, the remainder of the link (after the initial character) is case-sensitive.
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
In fact, it refers to reliable sources. If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia." Looking at ...
Another approach is to indicate word boundaries using medial capitalization, called "camelCase", "PascalCase", and many other names, thus respectively rendering "two words" as "twoWords" or "TwoWords". This convention is commonly used in Pascal, Java, C#, and Visual Basic.
It has to be capitalized. You will not find a lowercase the for the city in any decent source. You're right about the Alps, wrong about The Who and The The, both of which take the capital. There just isn't a general rule here, as far as I can tell. --Trovatore 21:32, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Capitalize the name of a degree when it is displayed on a resume, business card, diploma, alumni directory, or anywhere it looks like a title rather than a description. You can’t go too far wrong with this if you’re consistent within a given document. Perhaps we should emphasize the final point about consistency.
President Donald Trump has an unusual writing style that has caught the attention of linguists and writing experts.
The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing ...